Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-12-30
told. are being erected around tho

soon see Roman cowboys who ought to
be in school landing here on our coasts
and inquiring at the corner of Broad
way and Chambers street where they
can find an Indian outbreak to quell
May we not look for the Arabian and
Chinese contingent by next spring
armed to the teeth and asking at an
Intelligence office when the Deadwood
stage is expected, so that they can at
tack it and rob it few times ?
Yet who but Col. Cody would have
thought of going to tire four corners of
the earth with such showP Who but
he would have hired the Coliseum after
its long, dull and disastrous season
Now. however, that he has opened the
way it will be no boubt the beginning
OF an era of prosperity for that great
place of amusement and the Wild
West Show will be followed very likely
by stereopticon entertainments and
humorous lecture. In that way Bntia-
10 Bill is benefactOr, for the long and
painful silence that has settled down
for centuries about the galleries and
dim foyers Of the Coliseum will be
broken and tho thrilling tones of Cur
few shall not ring tonight" will jar
the chinkng out of the crumbling
walls that in years past resounded
with the applause of the Roman popu-
lace as Spartacus told the people that
he was not always thus.
May it not be that in future years,
now that the Coliseum is to be thrown
open. Joshua Whitcomb will jerk his
old hair trunk across the arena which
once caught the warm blood of Aurelus
Portculis as he slowly fed himself to a
fierce Numidian lion, while the band
played Read the Answer in the
Stars ?"
How long will 1t be before Mr.. Adonis
+. Dixey will deliver milk where once
the fat and wheezy Roman Pretor said
there were no noble men but Romans
and Ohio menP
Can il be that Mrs. Langtry or Mrs.
James Brown Potter will some day rent
the Coliseum for whole season and
wear their good clothes where centuries
ago, the gladiator, wearing belt with
frll to II and armed with a cast-iron
toadstsbber. bowed to the Roman
Pretor and asked M 10 kindly turn
in few ringtail tigers from Farther
India and he would show tho audience
how q grown-up tiger looked ms DEP
May not Mr.. Kiralfy in the near
future show the wondering descendants
Of Aurelius Rutabaga Trifolatus now
Babylon looked while in the act OF fall
ing and throw upon the walls of the
Coliseum the celebrated handwriting
which nobody but Daniel ever could
make out2
can see that in a dramatic way
Buffalo Bill has opened mp new route,
besides starting towards America a
perfect swarm of amateur cowboys who
desire to cross the plains and rescue
beautiful young lady who is walking
from Jules berg 10 Walla Walla wearing
perle franca sc dress, the front yelled
with Hoboken rick rack" en- tdblier,
Pompadour panels of creme A-shaped
ia lie franchise, en b0uFant, lined with
oyster velvet AMI edged with heavy
elephant s-breath ; liz cord. while in the
V-shsped corsage nestles large bunch
of Marshal o Neil roses.
My sympath es are with the people
who We in the West and who resent
this thing. For many years the people
who dwell in the Terrltor es have been
annually Wis ted by young people from
the older portions of the country or
from England who desired to give
themselves up to carnage Now the
prospects are that the influx will be
even greater than ever, and | would
advise the people who dwell in the far
West to arm themselves with eggs or
some other groceries that will not hurt
and be prepared.
saw one of these kindergarten cow
boys get of train once and go up
through the town. Afterwards | saw
him come back. lie looked different
somehow. When he got of at the sta
tion noticed that he had long hair
which was tied back with a pale blue
watered silk ribbon. He had long legs
which seemed to extend from his
Adam s-apple to the ground. A mar
row, red four-in hand hectic denoted
where the legs terminated and the head
began. He looked real sweet When
he took the train there was nothing by
which to identify him except straw
berry mark which lie carried carefully
concealed IN a shawl strap.
Boys who sigh to dash madly across
the plains or follow the cowpath to
fame do not know of the dangers and
desolation such life involves. There
are two classes of cowboys in the West,
viz. the working cowboy and the lay
figure cowboy. The latter remains in
town and rolls cigarettes, which he